{"id":176725,"date":"2026-03-03T20:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:02:12","slug":"desantis-unveils-13-million-in-job-grants-for-panama-city-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176725\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis unveils $13 million in job grants for Panama City region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">PANAMA CITY, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday held a news conference in Panama City, where he highlighted new awards from Florida\u2019s Job Growth Grant Fund and outlined plans to pursue a property tax change on the November 2026 ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Joined by Secretary of Commerce Alex Kelly, DeSantis spoke at the Bay County Government Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[WATCH BELOW: Florida bill would expand privacy protections to fenced yards]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DeSantis said the state will distribute more than $13 million through the Job Growth Grant Fund to support local projects and workforce development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe are awarding 5 million to the Panama City, Bay County Airport and Industrial District to construct an aircraft engine repair station and an engine testing facility at Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DeSantis also said state leaders are preparing a constitutional measure to give Floridians property tax relief and that, because of how taxing authorities are structured in the state constitution, the change must go to voters.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANAMA CITY, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday held a news conference in Panama City, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4525,28,30,29,4526,99,412],"class_list":{"0":"post-176725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-bay-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-panama-city","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-ron-desantis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}